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The Funniest Book Title?

We found a book in the discard stack the other day with one of those memorably wacky titles: Top Notch Surgeon, Pregnant Nurse. It’s so bad, it’s funny. But it’s real; the author is Amy Andrews (and you can look it up). Anyway, it got us to thinking about funny, real book titles. A bit of research turned up some howlers. Here’s my choice of the top 20 funniest book titles I’ve discovered, all real published books, with my very favorite at the end:

Cheese Problems Solved – P.L.H. McSweeney

The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories – Alisa Surkis

The Potatoes of Bolivia – J.G. Hawkes

How to Avoid Huge Ships – John W. Trimmer

Reusing Old Graves – Douglas Davies

Walled Up Nuns & Nuns Walled In – Lancelot Holland

Bombproof Your Horse – Jack Pelicano

Harnessing the Earthworm – Thomas J. Barrett

People Who Don’t Know they’re Dead – Gary Leon Hill

How Green Were the Nazis? – Franz-Josef Bruggemeier

Old Tractors and the Men Who Love Them – Roger Welsch

Weeds in a Changing World – C.H. Stirton

Across Europe by Kangaroo – Joseph Barry

Drilling a Straight Hole – Nancy Janicek

Greek Rural Postmen and their Cancellation Numbers – (author not listed, perhaps for good reason)

Think about it for a moment. It’s a Winnie the Pooh cookbook from 1995 whose title suggests something altogether different from what the publisher intended. The cooking results from this might be low-fat, but I’m guessing all the food tastes like …. well, you know what.

Please feel free to add your favorites, but only real book titles, please.

As one of the two co-authors of Conspiracy Theories & Secret Societies for Dummies, , I have to object and say that it is nowhere as chucklesome as The Complete Idiot’s Guide To The Kennedys by Steven Strauss.